Download or read book Leading with Love and Laughter written by Zina Sutch and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership has for too long been treated as a function and not as a relationship. Zina Sutch and Patrick Malone argue that successful leadership must be based on love (altruism and empathy) and laughter (positive emotions and joy). Science tells us that humans are deeply wired for empathy and compassion and that our emotional selves help us make better decisions and motivate others. However, the tactics we use to train leaders bear little reflection of these advancements; we're still creating competent but emotionally distant leaders who “manage human assets” and lead by setting goals, deadlines, and deliverables. Zina Sutch and Patrick Malone hope to flip a light switch and illuminate, above all else, that leadership begins with heart and soul. Too many training programs reduce leadership to an equation, matrix, or acronym. But leadership is a relationship. It's one human helping another. The most successful leaders show they genuinely care about their employees and are, well, fun. It's just like any relationship. In seven succinct chapters, the authors show that people lead best when they tap into their genetically driven human nature to love and nurture, connect and trust. Leading with love and laughter offers powerful dividends: tighter teams, stronger performance, improved morale, greater trust, more creativity, and even better health. While Sutch and Malone cite the science and offer examples, tips, and practices, their larger purpose is to reintroduce the warmth of human interaction and emotion as the foundation of what leadership is all about.
Download or read book With Love and Laughter John Ritter written by Amy Yasbeck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The widow of John Ritter celebrates the life of her beloved late husband, discusses his untimely death, and shares how she and her family are dealing with their grief and loss of a husband and father.
Download or read book Rumi s Little Book of Love and Laughter written by Coleman Barks and published by Hampton Roads Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rowdy, ecstatic, and sometimes stern, these teaching stories and fables reveal new and very human properties in Rumi's vision. Included here are the notorious "Latin parts" that Reynold Nicholson felt were too unseemly to appear in English in his 1920s translation. For Rumi, anything that human beings do--however compulsive--affords a glimpse into the inner life. Here are more than 40 fables or teaching stories that deal with love, laughter, death, betrayal, and the soul. The stories are exuberant, earthy, and bursting with vitality--much like a painting by Hieronymus Bosch or Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The characters are guilty, lecherous, tricky, ribald, and finally possessors of opened souls. Barks writes: "These teaching stories are a kind of scrimshaw--intricately carved, busy figures, confused and threatening, and weirdly funny. This is an entertaining collection from one of the greatest spiritual poets of all time, rendered by his most popular translator. "The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."--Rumi
Download or read book Nights of Love and Laughter written by Henry Miller and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s Most Unusual Writer... In this fascinating volume, devoted to the work of one of the most dynamic, controversial and unusual living American writers, you will find many eloquent and moving tales by Henry Miller, the author of Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, and many other books. Miller’s frank and original expression of the most intimate thoughts and feelings of men and women, his unique style of writing and his acute observations on modern civilization have brought him international fame. Among the many eminent writers and critics who praise his work are T. S. Eliot, George Orwell, John Dos Passos, Aldous Huxley, Edmund Wilson, and H. L. Mencken. All who enjoy and appreciate good writing will find this brilliant collection of Miller’s stories a new and unforgettable reading experience. “His is one of the most beautiful styles today.”—H. L. Mencken “...a literary live wire.”—St. Louis Post Dispatch “Mr. Miller’s love goes out to the little people, men whom the world has never noticed.”—Nashville Tennessean
Download or read book The Book of Love Laughter Romance written by Barbara Jonas and published by Time for Two. This book was released on 1993-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprised of suggestions and ideas for making a relationship special--contributed by men and women of all ages--this book is a collection of moving, honest, often funny, and always real "secrets" for nurturing and enjoying romance.
Download or read book Love Loss and Laughter written by Cathy Greenblat and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See the BBC’s slideshow of photos from Love, Loss, and Laughter.
Download or read book Love and Laughter in the Time of Chemotherapy written by Manjusha Pawagi and published by Second Story Press. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manjusha Pawagi, a successful family court judge, has written a not-so-typical memoir about her experience with cancer. Wryly funny and stubbornly hopeful, this is her quirky take on what it's like to face your own mortality when, to be honest, you thought you'd live forever. She describes how even the darkest moments of life can be made worse with roommates; details how much determination it takes to ignore the statistics; and answers the age-old question: what does it take to get a banana popsicle around here?
Download or read book Fresh Milk written by Geoff Blackwell and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the 1950s photographic exhibition, 'The Family of Man', M.I.L.K. began asn an epic global search to find geographically diverse images on the themes of friendship, family and love.
Download or read book Life Love Laughter written by Osho and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Life, Love, Laughter: Celebrating Your Existence, one of the twentieth century’s greatest spiritual teachers shares how humor and wisdom strengthens our lives. In this collection of reflections, Osho’s encouraging and loving stories go far beyond the usual chicken-soup fare. Life, Love, Laughter establishes a new genre of introspective text stripped of all platitudes and clichés, and absolutely in tune with the realities of the twenty-first century. In this artful work, Osho mixes entertainment and inspiration, ancient Zen stories and contemporary jokes to help us to find love, laughter, and ultimately, happiness. Featuring an original talk by Osho on DVD, you’ll experience his direct insight and wit straight from the source. Osho challenges readers to examine and break free of the conditioned belief systems and prejudices that limit their capacity to enjoy life in all its richness. He has been described by the Sunday Times of London as one of the “1000 Makers of the 20th Century” and by Sunday Mid-Day (India) as one of the ten people—along with Gandhi, Nehru, and Buddha—who have changed the destiny of India. Since his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings continues to expand, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world.
Download or read book The Book of Laughter and Forgetting written by Milan Kundera and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level—political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous." —Newsweek "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography. It can call itself whatever it wants to, because the whole is genius." —New York Times Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.
Download or read book Love Laughter and Tears written by Cornelius Ogormley and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like most people, I have had much Love, Laughter, and Tears in my life. I cherish the Love and Laughter but, the Tears are hard to forget.
Download or read book Lyrics of Love and Laughter written by Paul Laurence Dunbar and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lament Love and Laughter written by Barbara Buntin Bosarge and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lament, Love and Laughter equals life or a large portion of it. The reader sees glimpses of the author’s heart, while her soul is laid bare in a fervent prayer for her son, just days before he takes his life. From cherished childhood memories spent with loving grandparents, to painful memories of an abusive father, the author shares much of herself. Barbara’s love for her children and grandchildren is evident throughout, and the poem, “Worn-out Work Boots” reveals her love for her husband of 67 years. The author’s poetry, essays, and reminiscences are examples of humor and pathos, truth and character, and is a view of her outlook on life.
Download or read book Ness written by Robert Macfarlane and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eerie, unsettling and hauntingly beautiful - a new collaboration from the bestselling creators of Holloway, Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood 'Ness goes beyond what we expect books to do. Beyond poetry, beyond the word, beyond the bomb -- it is an aftertime song' Max Porter, Booker-longlisted author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers Somewhere on a salt-and-shingle island, inside a ruined concrete structure known as The Green Chapel, a figure called The Armourer is leading a ritual with terrible intent. But something is coming to stop him. Five more-than-human forms are traversing land, sea and time towards The Green Chapel, moving to the point where they will converge and become Ness. Ness has lichen skin and willow-bones. Ness is made of tidal drift, green moss and deep time. Ness has hagstones for eyes and speaks only in birds. And Ness has come to take this island back. What happens when land comes to life? What would it take for land to need to come to life? Using word and image, the pair have together made a minor modern myth. Part-novella, part-prose-poem, part-mystery play, in Ness their skills combine to dazzling, troubling effect. Robert Macfarlane is the author of The Lost Words with Jackie Morris, The Old Ways and Underland. Stanley Donwood is an artist and the author of Slowly Downward, Household Worms and Bad Island.
Download or read book Love Light and Laughter written by Shah Henderson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is possible to have strong intimate relationships with others, if we haven't first developed one with ourselves? This is the motivating question behind E-SENSUAL FOR WOMEN; a sensuality programme for empowering women, developed by Shar Henderson. Love, Light and Laughter will complement the programme, and outlines a series of sensual and sexual exercises readers can conduct in the safety of their own home and mind that will enable them to develop sensual self-esteem. Sensual self esteem is an experience of connecting with yourself and the world around you through your senses (seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, smelling, sensing) and exploring how to create and attend to these in a way that enhances your understanding of who you are and your sense of self. The exercises are a simple yet powerful way of supporting a shift from who you experience yourself as currently into more of who you aspire to be.
Download or read book Laughter in the Walls written by Bob Benson and published by Thomas Nelson Incorporated. This book was released on 1990-12-01 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of poems that tells some stories -- and the story -- of a growing family, of a loving father, of a deeply-held faith.
Download or read book For The Love of Laughter written by Jackie Combden and published by Library and Archives of Canada. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS IS NOT A TYPICAL "HOW TO BE A CLOWN BOOK". IT IS MORE LIKE A "WHY DID I BECOME A CLOWN AT AGE 32 AND WHY AM I STILL CLOWNING AT AGE 59?" BOOK. The how-to part is fairly straight-forward, but the why aspect is elusive and inexplicable. For The Love of Laughter is a compilation of my own hands-on experiences as a clown over a 27 year period. I just wanted to set down my memories before they faded. Trained as a nurse in both the Emergency department and Intensive Care Unit, my career path was laid out for me by the time I was 24 years old. However, becoming a professional clown was beyond anything even my creative brain could imagine.I hope my stories might inspire and touch anyone who has ever wondered what life looks like from this side of the makeup.
